NYU Global TIES for Children

Playtime isn’t just fun – it’s essential for your child’s mental health. Learn how you can boost their confidence, curiosity and creativity through play. #EarlyMomentsMatter https://uni.cf/45vAkS9

NYU-TIES and Facultad de Educación | Uniandes are thrilled to announce the Spanish version of our Peru report! 🇵🇪 Supported by Education Cannot Wait (ECW), our team conducted a mixed-methods study to understand and strengthen Peru's educational monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4chbcRS Dive into our report to discover our key findings and recommendations in four main areas: 🔑 Existing Systems: Highlighting current M&E mechanisms to ensure high standards of quality, reliability, and validity in measuring educational outcomes. 🔑 Inclusion Efforts: Focusing on students with special needs and Venezuelan refugees by providing comprehensive diagnostic services, professional development opportunities for educators, and culturally relevant educational materials. 🔑 Holistic Learning: Emphasizing social and emotional skills for students and frontline providers, promoting strategies for supporting holistic development. 🔑 M&E System Enhancement: Enhancing the understanding and use of M&E systems across different levels and actors to improve coherence and effectiveness. Explore our recommendations to improve education systems and create brighter futures for all! Evelyn Seminario, Jimena Ferrándiz Salazar, Pia Madanes Quintanilla, Olga Lucía G., Camilo Moreno Romero, Lucero Ramirez-Varela, Francisco Cardozo, Roxane Caires, Sergio Ozoria, Abiraahmi Shankar, Karolina Lajch, Andrés Molano Flechas, Carly Tubbs Dolan

On #WorldRefugeeDay, themed “Hope Away From Home - a world where refugees are always included,” NYU-TIES reaffirms our commitment to supporting refugee children’s education and well-being. 🌍👶📚 This day highlights the importance of integrating refugees into communities where they find safety and access to essential services. ⭐ We're excited to share highlights of our publications from the past year, showcasing our efforts and findings. 🔗 Check out our special World Refugee Day newsletter for more. https://bit.ly/3VpMl6Y #EducationForAll #HopeAwayFromHome #RefugeeDay #WithRefugees

Hirokazu Yoshikawa 👏🏽

On the first-ever hashtag #InternationalDayofPlay, Sesame Workshop, BRAC, NYU Global TIES for Children, International Rescue Committee, and The LEGO Foundation are proud to announce new research from the Play to Learn Initiative Hirokazu Yoshikawa

🎉 On this very first #InternationalDayofPlay, we’re excited to release two new briefs from our Play to Learn project, showcasing the transformative power of play for fathers and through children’s media. 🌍👶 Play is more than fun — it's essential for children’s development. It builds resilience, confidence, and crucial life skills. Yet, to truly harness its power, we need supportive policies, training, and investment in inclusive, safe play spaces. See the two briefs below to learn what we found evaluating two different interventions that integrate play into early childhood development programming. 1️⃣ Father Engagement Model in Rohingya Camps and Host Communities in Cox’s Bazar, #Bangladesh: In Rohingya camps and nearby communities, fathers are being empowered through play by the NGO BRAC. Over a 6-month period, we found that this program improved fathers’ engagement with their family and their parenting , reduced child corporal punishment, and for disadvantaged families reduced father’s depression and boosted child vocabulary. 2️⃣ Children’s Media Program on Emotional and Math Skills in #Colombia: In areas of Colombia affected by conflict, where traditional play may face disruption, such as in Venezuelan refugee communities, a digital format for learning through play was introduced. Through “Watch, Play, Learn,” children receive Sesame Workshop’s playful, educational content via WhatsApp. We found that these short, engaging videos improved children’s ability to identify emotions, encouraging children to learn through play. Let's celebrate #InternationalDayofPlay by recognizing the importance of play in every child's life! 🎈✨ 📢 Visit our website to read the briefs and learn more about Play to Learn: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4aX0UEP

Shoutout to NYU-TIES' colleagues Priyamvada Tiwari and Casey Moran who just completed the training on classroom tools for #Colombia-based organization, aeioTU ✨ 📚

Our 11-week Remote Early Learning Program had as much, or higher, impact on children‘s development as in-person preschools around the world. Skeptical? The Randomized Control Trial just published on the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness and led by NYU Global TIES for Children, found that the program designed by our teams at the International Rescue Committee in #Lebanon with Sesame Workshop during the COVID-19 pandemic, had significant effects on child development, parenting and caregiver wellbeing, indicating that RELP is a viable alternative to support children in places where in-person preschool is not feasible. This is contributing to the mounting evidence for Early Childhood Education overall, and flies in the face of beliefs that remote-learning modalities for young children is ineffective against traditional schooling. The key ingredient? Caregivers’ engagement with their children. With the study also presenting evidence that the positive effects persisted regardless of caregiver levels of education or literacy. It is hard to overstate the results. #NYU’s study concludes: “The implications of this for under-resourced, remote, conflict-affected, highly mobile, or otherwise hard-to-access communities are immense. Remote alternatives could be the key to meaningful progress on SDGs …and could open up the possibility of ECE to millions of additional children”. This is ready for scale up. Are you watching The World Bank and Education Cannot Wait (ECW)? Christy El Khoury, PMP Siwar Hashwe #RELP #remotelearning #ECD #ECE #Ahlansimsim

🌟 Join Our 10-year Celebration of NYU-TIES 🌟 This week, we've taken time to pause, reflect, and celebrate 10 years of NYU-TIES. While we've enjoyed the remarkable journey so far, we know our work is far from done. As we wrap up our series, we'd like to look forward with resolve.  🔗 https://bit.ly/3V8lfm1 🔹 Moving ahead, what should we prioritize to support children’s development in the next decade?

🌟 Join Our 10-year Celebration of NYU-TIES 🌟 As we celebrate the remarkable journey of Global TIES for Children, we want to hear from YOU – our incredible community. Today, let’s take a look at what we’ve produced over the decade: frameworks, measures, presentations, reports, interactive tools, and more! All designed to make our findings accessible. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3wOQ1aj 🔹 What NYU-TIES products have been the most useful in your work?